Minecraft Multiplayer!

[Sudy Nym]

I took the tour today. Very impressive! I took the liberty of digging a small tunnel at the bottom of your mine, eventually reaching some lava and water. I left a bit of gold that I found along the way in your stash.

Hey, thanks! It was just a day or so of fooling around on my part, but I had a lot of fun. I haven't decided whether to continue and polish it up, or to move on to a new project. But I'm thrilled at exploring each other's creations, and it seems really cool to design areas with others' visits in mind.

Nice tunnel! Did you just happen upon the lava and water, or do you know some trick for finding them that I don't? It's extremely rare that I come across them by chance when prospecting.

Is there any way to get rid of excess material, other than dumping it piece-by-piece? I have stacks upon stacks of rock, gravel, and dirt wasting space in my stash.

Not that I know of, but let me know if you figure anything out. For now, the best method I've found is digging a "trash chute" and then clearing out my inventory all at once. I've found no practical use for dirt and gravel (only occasionally do I use dirt for outdoor landscaping). Rock, however, I craft into smooth blocks whenever I have spare coal, as I find it makes a nice building material.

[AWS260]

Nice tunnel! Did you just happen upon the lava and water, or do you know some trick for finding them that I don't? It's extremely rare that I come across them by chance when prospecting.

Sheer luck. I used my usual random exploration technique, which is to dig long, straight tunnels through the rock, and fully excavate any pockets of dirt or gravel I come across.

Rock, however, I craft into smooth blocks whenever I have spare coal, as I find it makes a nice building material.

I did not know you could do that. Handy.

[Cylus Maxii]

Spent a lot of time playing single player survival mode this rainy weekend. I now wish I had played multiplayer so you all could see my neat works.

I'm having a lot of problems finding any metals. I've gone all of the way to the bottom of my starting tunnel system and have even found the zombie generator room and a treasure chest. I've explored all side tunnels and even drove a shaft from my main hall all of the way down to the bedrock. So far, I've found maybe 50-60 iron, less than a dozen gold and maybe 5 diamonds. I have a couple of hundred red-iron dust though. Luckily - I've found a couple of thousand coal along the way.

I think the game generates the world chunks and then puts in the caverns as systems. I have found no open spaces when tunneling laterally (at any level) from my fully explored cavern system (Unless it was another part of the same system that I had already marked with torches. The only exception was the very bottom, where I had to tunnel through rock to follow the lava (the lava was connected, but the air pockets weren't always at least 2 block high to let me through.)

btw, when exploring the tunnel system - I would put one fence section in the entrance of any dead and just to help me find my way and keep me from going wasting time getting lost in the same areas. I also occasionally put white steps on frequently used paths (as bread crumbs).

I'll have to take a couple of good screen shots and figure out how to post them.

[Shinjin]

My contribution, not far from AWS260 (thanks again for all that redstone) - a 14 segment "LCD" display:









Feel free to come play with it. Levers in the back have redstone torch indicators to let you know what segments in front are lit.

I may make more displays to join to it, though I think I'll use smoothed stone rather than sand for the next ones. But I have a few other projects in mind that may distract me.

[ChrisGrenard]

I made a creative server, so if you're more into just goofing off with editing stuff than trying to actually mine, here's the info:

Server: http://www.minecraft.net/play.jsp?serve ... 1eb1bf433a

Now, I haven't been out promoting the server much, but at this point you gotta at least visit for a few minutes and look around. We've added some pretty spiffy stuff all over our little world, including our invention of Water-based elevators. (Somewhat System Shock-esque)

[AWS260]

My contribution, not far from AWS260 (thanks again for all that redstone) - a 14 segment "LCD" display:

Feel free to come play with it. Levers in the back have redstone torch indicators to let you know what segments in front are lit.

It's the Las Vegas of our little Minecraft world.

[Crabbs]

My contribution, not far from AWS260 (thanks again for all that redstone) - a 14 segment "LCD" display:

Feel free to come play with it. Levers in the back have redstone torch indicators to let you know what segments in front are lit.

It's the Las Vegas of our little Minecraft world.

I'll have to go check it out. I'm still keeping myself busy excavating my fortress until I his bedrock. Once I'm there, then I'll start to explore the world some.

[AWS260]

Did a little more exploring this weekend and found a pretty big body of water to the north, plus a few interesting caves.

Can you create an updated world map? I'd be curious to see what new structures have been created since this version.

[Archinerd]

Alright, I'm convinced. This game looks awesome.
Could someone PM me the server info so I could begin my masterpiece this weekend?

[Vorret]

Hm
Sooooo I fell through the world, wasn't paying attention in my mine and I digged too deep.

How can I respawn?

[Varity]

Hm
Sooooo I fell through the world, wasn't paying attention in my mine and I digged too deep.

How can I respawn?

If you don't respawn automatically on logging back in, try the "/home" command.

[Cylus Maxii]

I finally logged into server last night - that LED display was awesome. Sedge was on for a bit.

I was being a tourist and looking for a spot to maybe settle in, but the lag was awful and I ran into void at edge of wold (it stopped loading chunks) soon after. I'll try again some other night.

[AWS260]

I was being a tourist and looking for a spot to maybe settle in, but the lag was awful and I ran into void at edge of wold (it stopped loading chunks) soon after. I'll try again some other night.

When that happens, disconnecting/reconnecting sometimes clears it up.

[Crabbs]

I built a little pier off into our bay and use it to dump my excess stone/earth/gravel into. So don't fall off the end of my little pier or you'll be auto loaded up with thousands of pieces of garbage stone. Glad the oceans have lots of room

WHo built the big turtle thingy? That looks cool, haven't checked it out close yet, bet that took some time.

[Lordnine]

I made a creative server, so if you're more into just goofing off with editing stuff than trying to actually mine, here's the info:

Server: http://www.minecraft.net/play.jsp?serve ... 1eb1bf433a

Our epic castle is complete! Check it out and make sure to investigate the dungeon passage.

[Lordnine]

Well we switched over to the OO server tonight. We now have a vertical tree farm and a mine cart route that goes from our castle basement to the main OO castle mine. You should find a normal cart, a transport cart and a rocket cart if anyone wants to try it out.

[Shinjin]

I built a little pier off into our bay

I'm going to have to find this pier. I've begun a rather large pumpkin that requires quite a bit of dirt yet. Not that it takes all that long to dig up dirt...

[Crabbs]

I built a little pier off into our bay

I'm going to have to find this pier. I've begun a rather large pumpkin that requires quite a bit of dirt yet. Not that it takes all that long to dig up dirt...

It's just a 3 cobblestone wide & 5 or 6 cobble stonr long pier running into the main bay close to my place, it's past the orginal spwan area, should be able to sink and get a couple inventories full of stone/dirt/gravel

[Shinjin]

My contribution, not far from AWS260 (thanks again for all that redstone) - a 14 segment "LCD" display:

[pics]

Feel free to come play with it. Levers in the back have redstone torch indicators to let you know what segments in front are lit.

I may make more displays to join to it, though I think I'll use smoothed stone rather than sand for the next ones. But I have a few other projects in mind that may distract me.

I've been ruminating on this and I've come up with a goal that may be a little ambitious, but I think I can do. I haven't worked through a proof of concept offline yet though.

I'm pretty sure that I can make a multi-panel display that has a single set of controls in front of the display. My plans:

- 14 buttons arranged near ground level (one for each the segments)
- a button to choose the "active" panel (each press advances to the next panel)
- a single toggle circuit that will toggle the state of the selected segment
- a button to turn off all segments in a panel [maybe]

It'll be interesting to see if I can pull it off. The real fun part will be to see if I can actually re-use the toggle circuit like I hope to. Though I'll just build 14 of them if I'm not up to the task.

If I can get it to work, then it would just be grunt work to add more and more panels, replacing the natural skyline with one of my making. Mua-ha-ha-haaaa!

[Sepiche]

Can you create an updated world map? I'd be curious to see what new structures have been created since this version.

Sure! I might not be able to get to it tonight, but I'll post an updated map soon.

[Archinerd]

I just logged onto the OO server during my lunch break today. Lordnine was there digging coal out under his castle. I was impressed with all the crazy stuff you guys have been building.
The highlight was taking a walk along the sky path and falling off into a pool of lava in AWS's front yard.

[Lordnine]

Can anyone explain how to make water springs? I've seen tutorials but when I try it the water goes away almost instantly.

[AWS260]

[mad scientist stuff]

I have about four full stacks of redstone in my stash right now. Feel free to help yourself.

[happydog]

Ok, not sure if I would join in building stuff, but I would love to come check out all the creations.

[mad scientist stuff]

Have you tried the redstone simulator? Not sure how much help it would be, but probably easier than trial and error in-game.

[Cylus Maxii]

You should place a chest next to your display that has a sign asking for redstone donations. People can come take a look and drop off supplies to keep you going.

[Sepiche]

New map!

Not sure about the orientation so I wouldn't use it if you get lost, but it should give an idea of how far things have come. Click for the much (MUCH) larger version.

[Lordnine]

Ok, who is wandering around the world setting random trees on fire?

[ChrisGrenard]

Lordnine and I have like 6 stacks of redstone we could donate. You can find our place near the giant hellish burning sky forest.

[Shinjin]

Thanks guys. I'm currently ok on redstone, but I'll definitely hit you up when I get low

[Shinjin]

Have you tried the redstone simulator? Not sure how much help it would be, but probably easier than trial and error in-game.

Cool - I'll have to give it a shot. I guess it's time to buckle down and learn to decipher the notation from the wiki (which appears to be used with this tool.)

[Lordnine]

Chris broke the server! It crashed right after he lit our sky forest on fire!

[ChrisGrenard]

It had to burn, I found out it was working for the Trickster god and Victoria!!

[AWS260]

I've cropped the most populous portion of the map and noted those projects where I know who built it. (Click to embiggen.)

[Mr. Fed]

Is the spawn point the same for everyone on that map?

[Matrix]

is it working? i have the old log in but it seems server is not present.

Great work on the snow world, really cool job. With snow man, castle and mario snowing style

[Vorret]

Right beside chris is mine.

Carefull at the bottom of the pit of madness (?!?) you can kinda die (well, get stuck in the world) I'll fix it today probably.

It's fugly but at some point it'll look good, I think

[AWS260]

Is the spawn point the same for everyone on that map?

Yes. Right by the two sand pillars and the giant dude with the tree on his head.

[Archinerd]

Right beside chris is mine.

Carefull at the bottom of the pit of madness (?!?) you can kinda die (well, get stuck in the world) I'll fix it today probably.

It's fugly but at some point it'll look good, I think

Yeah, I got stuck down there on my first foray into the world.
It did give me an opportunity to learn the /home command though.

[Sepiche]

Got the server back up and running this morning. I'm guessing there must be some memory leaks with burning things since when I looked at it the server's memory use was pegged.

[ChrisGrenard]

Got the server back up and running this morning. I'm guessing there must be some memory leaks with burning things since when I looked at it the server's memory use was pegged.

We thought it was the mine carts we installed the other day, or perhaps that giant burning forest way off on the left side where nobody is at.